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Native American Cookbooks

Celebrate Native American Heritage month with cookbooks from authors throughout the different tribes and cultures.

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9 items

  • Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky

    Modern Plant-based Recipes Using Native American Ingredients

    Frank, Lois Ellen,
    Some food historians say that 1491 to 1493 are the years the world began in terms of food, that is. Prior to 1492, eight plants--corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and cacao--existed only in the Americans. Italy didn't…
    BookNew York, NY : Hachette Go, [2023] — 641.563 Fra
  • New Native Kitchen

    Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian

    Bitsoie, Freddie,
    New Native Kitchen is a celebration of Indigenous cuisine. Accompanied by original artwork by Gabriella Trujillo and offering delicious dishes like Cherrystone Clam Soup from the Northeastern Wampanoag and Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin from…
    BookNew York, NY : Abrams, [2021] — 641.592 Bit
  • A Feast for All Seasons

    Traditional Native People's Cuisine

    George, Andrew, Jr., 1963-
    Traditional North American Native peoples' cuisine has existed for centuries, but its central tenet of respecting nature and its bounty have never been as timely as they are now. Andrew George, of the Wet'suwet'en Nation in Canada, is a…
    BookVancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010. — 641.592 Geo
  • Inside this fully illustrated cookbook is an introduction to intuitive food preparation! Meaning less reliance on teaspoons, grams, degrees, and exact cook times, and more on the way humans have always cooked: by tasting, watching,…
    BookSan Francisco, CA : Silver Sprocket, [2023] — 641.563 Mar
  • Eat Mesquite and More

    a Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living

    Mesquite and More celebrates native food forests of the Sonoran Desert and beyond with over 170 recipes featuring wild, indigenous foods, including mesquite, acorn, barrel cactus, chiltepin, cholla, desert chia, desert herbs and flowers,…
    BookTucson, Arizona : Desert Harvesters : RainSource Press, [2018] — 641.5979 Des
  • Spirit of the Harvest

    North American Indian Cooking

    Cox, Beverly, 1945-
    This carefully researched cookbook presents 150 recipes from across the United States, incorporating many indigenous ingredients and traditional dishes from the Cherokee, Chippewa, Navajo, Sioux, Mohegan, Iroquois, Comanche, Hopi, and many…
    BookNew York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang : Distributed in the U.S. by Workman Pub., 1991. — 641.592 Cox
  • Chími Nu'am

    Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen

    Calvosa Olson, Sara,
    In this sumptuous cookbook, Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk) reimagines some of the oldest foods in California for home cooks today. Meaning "Let's eat!" in the Karuk language, Ch̕mi Nu'am shares the author's delicious and inventive takes on…
    BookBerkeley, California : Heyday, [2023] — 641.6 Cal
  • Decolonize Your Diet

    Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing

    Calvo, LuzEsquibel, Catriona Rueda
    More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases. Authors…
    eBookArsenal Pulp Press, 2016
  • Corn Dance

    Inspired First American Cuisine

    Oden, Loretta Barrett,
    Amply illustrated and adapted to bring the taste of Native tradition into the home kitchen, Corn Dance invites readers to join Loretta Oden on her inspiring journey into the Indigenous heritage, and the exhilarating culinary future, of…
    BookNorman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2023] — 641.592 Ode